The Year of Indie Pets: The Gay Pomeranian in Baths’ Press Shots

October 15, 2010

In the press shots for Baths’ Cerulean, the first Anticon full-length from 21-year-old Will Wiesenfeld, the solo electronic artist is posed among tree trunks and lush grass, staring off into sulking oblivion, wearing your grandfather’s cotton underwear. The photos are ridiculous. This is deliberate. “I hate head-on shots and intentionally not smiling and all that type of thing,” Wiesenfeld told us earlier this week, over the phone from a van he’s sharing with tourmates El Ten Eleven. “So I wanted it to be cutesy.” Cutesy is one way to put it; uncomfortably precious is another. To make things even weirder, Wiesenfeld incorporated his friend Jane’s freshly shorn pomeranian, Giuseppe. “The dog was just sort of, ‘Oh my God that’s next level.'”